I would also add words non-black Latinx people use to decontexualize AfroLatinos who like us are a product of slavery.
Dominicans say “cocolo.” It was originally used to identify the non latinx blacks or darker skin in general. Majority of the time, it is used as a slur to compare blacks, both non-spanish speaking and latinx. So if you hear (pronounced “co-co-low”) it, please don’t hold back.
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I used to hang around alot of mexicans. And the word i learned was “Mayate” (Pronounced my-yah-teh). It literally translates to “n****r”. So if you hear it, pop the fuck off.
I never knew mayate was bad…
Yeah, my friend’s parents use to throw parties and this guy used to come up to me and be like “AYYE QUE PASO MAYATE” and laugh when he did it. And i used to dap him up and smile cuz i had no idea what it meant until my friend pulled me to the side and told me cuz he was gettin tired of that shit. They had to legit PRY me off this nigga the next time he said that shit. So yeah, Mayate or Mayata. (Thats pretty much the female version of it.)
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One that I know is “pinacate.” It’s a black stink bug in Mexico and used as a term against Black folks and dark skinned non-Black folks. It’s pronounced (in Spanish) pee-nah-kah-teh.
Here’s a link from wikipedia that gives you an entire list of known racial slurs for ethnic groups: (X)
I’m gonna go through the list and see what words Hispanic/Latinx communities use against Black people and/or Afro-Latinx
My mom said that today in church her pastor said in the sermon that Jesus told us to help the poor, and taking money away from public schools to give to charter schools only widens the gap between the rich and the poor. She then added that Jesus spoke against adultery and lust and would not have approved of bragging about sexually assaulting women. According to my mom, people got up and walked out.
The pastor also started the sermon by noting that she’d heard of another minister who read the entirety of the Sermon on the Mount at the pulpit, to be told by the so-called Christian parishioners after the service that it was offensive and they didn’t agree.
The Sermon on the Mount is straight up the words of Jesus.
I recently read an article that said, hypocritical Christians in America don’t actually worship Jesus. They worship America, and even then, it’s a very specific, self-centered idea of America.
YES. EXACTLY.
My mom’s church talks almost every Sunday about how Christians are called to welcome strangers and foreigners and does tons of stuff to help refugees because HELLO, IT’S RIGHT THERE. IN THE RED TEXT, NO LESS.
I don’t believe everything they believe, but I REALLY like those people.
What a lot of these people are is idolators.
Not in terms of the realness or unrealness of who they worship, but in terms of how they’ve warped their focus away from the reality and turned it towards a fantasy of their own construction.
By definition, an idol is an image with no god behind it.
What they have done is taken the idea of Jesus and created a false image of him, nothing like the reality, to carry around in their back pocket, or to wave around on signs, and pull out and shove in people’s faces to justify all manner of unChristlike behavior.
It is a “worship” that is fundamentally self-centered rather than deity-centered, wherein the deity in question is more of a pocketbook get-out-of-jail-free card than directive to live by, and more of a status symbol than a guiding light.
That people will, without a shred of self-awareness, rest themselves assured that Jesus would want them to tip their waitress with a Jesus pamphlet made to look like folded-up money (to take only one example out of many) is the ultimate dismissal of everything the original stood for.
There is a line in the Bible about Jesus meeting his false worshipers and saying “I do not know you.” It seems like plenty of so-called Christians have beaten him to the punch with how quick they are to say they don’t know him.
A lot of churches and organizations in America that call themselves Christian churches are in fact Christianist cults. They no more represent Christianity than Daesh represents Islam. In addition to the usual nonsense of so-called Christians being pro-war, anti-immigrant, racist, and so forth, there are a lot of sects/movements that are just completely toxic and not Christian at all, even though they use that label. If you are Christian and want to have some fucking nightmares, google “christian dominionist,” or “prosperity gospel.”
Still think this is the most realistic diagram of the difference between the theological Jesus and the Comfortable Reinterpretation of Jesus.
